Adolf Schmitt (landscape architect)

Heinz Adolf Schmitt (born May 9, 1923 in Erfurt ; † March 28, 2014 in Cologne ) was a German landscape architect .

Life

Grave in Melaten cemetery

After serving in the war and being imprisoned for two years, Schmitt, the son of a garden architect, did a shortened apprenticeship in horticulture in 1948/49. After studying garden and landscape design in Weihenstephan , he worked as a freelance garden architect in Cologne from 1953. In 1973 he was appointed to the professorship for technical gardening and landscaping at the TFH Berlin . From 1987 he was professor for open space and green planning at RWTH Aachen .

In 1959 he became chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional group of the Federation of German Garden Architects BDGA. In 1964 Schmitt was one of the co-founders and first spokesman for CEGAP, the committee of European garden and landscape architects, the forerunner of today's IFLA-Europe . In succession to Richard Schreiner , he was President of the Association of German Garden Architects (BDGA) from 1967 to 1973 and, from 1977 to 1983, in succession to Dieter Strube, President of the successor organization, the Association of German Landscape Architects, BDLA .

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. J).

Honors

Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1973)

Hans-Bickel-Prize of the Association of Weihenstephan Engineers (1973)

Honorary President of the Association of German Landscape Architects (1983)

Individual evidence

^ Commemorative page by Heinz Adolf Prof. Schmitt. (limited visibility). Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
↑ Inscription on the grave cross
↑ After appreciation for the 90th

literature

August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? : das Deutsche who's who, Volume 42 , Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, 2003. ISBN 3-7950-2032-8 . P. 1267.

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personal data
SURNAME	Schmitt, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmitt, Heinz Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 2014
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Commemorative page by Heinz Adolf Prof. Schmitt. (limited visibility). Retrieved February 11, 2018 .

[2] Inscription on the grave cross

[3] After appreciation for the 90th